Read through the newspaper article below and then answer the question.

The question: Critically evaluate the ways in which the jury’s verdict in this case may have been influenced by juror decision-making processes, stating whether you agree or disagree with the verdict. In your answer, use the information in the peovided chapters and draw on what you know about humans in nature, plus at least two of the following three areas of psychology – cognitive psychology, individual differences and social psychology.

Relevant material

• Chapter 15, Section 4 ‘Cognitive psychology and the story model’
• Chapter 15, Section 5 ‘Individual differences in juror decision making’
• Chapter 15, Section 6 ‘Social psychology and juror decision making’
• Chapter 13, Section 2 ‘Environmental crises’
• Chapter 13, Section 3 ‘Managing knowledge about environmental crises’
• Chapter 13, Section 4 ‘Socially organised denial’.

Feel free to also draw upon material from anywhere else in the module that is relevant to your answer. Material that is not clearly relevant to the question or scenario will not earn you any marks and will compete for word count with relevant material you should be using.

Important: Please do not go over the 1800 word count for this assignement.

Finally, you should also consider including additional relevant material that you have found in your independent study time, such as research findings that were not covered, or only briefly covered, in the module materials. The key here is to ensure this is relevant to the question. If you use independent material, please highlight this in your reference section with an asterisk before the reference or highlight it in some other way (e.g. using a highlight tool, or a different text colour, such as blue or red; do not use italics or bold as this will interfere with your reference formatting).

***** The newpaper article to answer the question is attached in the file. Also all  the relevent chapter materials are attached as well.